The other night, after snuggling on the dog guests, I brought a salad into the guest room, where the tortoises were taking refuge from those dogs in the yard that I was worried may mistake them for chew toys.
I sat on the floor and watched Bjorn eat, and nudged Wailey towards the plate and held watermelon up to his face.
Kitten came in to investigate the smells of the guest room, since the door is usually closed. She stayed to watch the tortoise scene.
I smiled at them and then hopped up and went into Balu's room and announced, "Ya know something?" "What's that?" "I am completely amazed that people live without pets BY CHOICE."
Honestly - it just boggles me. And ME having pets requires that I walk around with the sniffles and a semi-itchy throat at most times.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
